On second viewing, I confirmed that Moonlight is truly a contemporary masterpiece, and currently the best film I've seen in 2016. My truncated review of past explained my primary observation: that the camera searches for and amplifies the quiet peace found in fleeting moments of connection with others. Herein, I wish to elaborate.

Though presented as a conventionally structured coming of age drama with three distinct chapters, Moonlight is far from a…

Paul W.S. Anderson rejects history and unapologetically creates a fictional story which constantly makes reference to its own artificiality. Affective images (emotionally affecting stills), saturated colours, and the hyperbolization of reality are features of its imaginative aesthetic, of a unique and auteur-driven vision of a fictional world: an artificial play which generates much genuine human emotion. Love is its content, from the love of Milo and Cassia to the brotherhood of Milo…

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Beginning January 1, 2014. In other words, the thousands of films seen and rated on other sites during my first 26 years of existence will not be visible here. The purpose is to convey thoughts borne of a more enlightened film viewer version of myself.